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Who's your top 3 opponents (players) you saw against us at Hillsborough?


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Michael Owen out there on his own. 

He was just unplayable before his injuries and we never handled him well at all.

 

Dare I say it...............Stuart Pearce when we went down in 1990 scored 2 crackers against us...........hate him and is thumbs up run.

 

 

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The top five has to include World Cup Winner Jurgen Klinsmann 

 

Scored in front of the Kop on his Spurs debut I believe. 

 

His movement was a different class from what I recall that day. 

 

And that dive. I was furious and impressed at the same time. 

 

 

 

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Players that always seemed to put the fear of god into me whenever we came up against them...

Kanchelskis

Ian Wright 

Lee Chapman (serious. That 1-6 game at Hillsborough he was unplayable, absolutely dominated Pearson) 

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8 minutes ago, torres said:

Ruud Gullit - total master class playing centre back!!

 

Ali Bernabia - Man City - looked 5 levels above everyone else 

 

Adam Johnson - early boro years - no one got near him that night 

 

 

 

 

 

Not sure if it was the same game or not because I don't recall him playing at CB, but I remember seeing Gullit absolutely bossing the games against us home and away in the same season, he was outstanding - although both games actually finished 0-0 and he went off injured after an hour down there! 

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2 minutes ago, alanharper said:

 

Not sure if it was the same game or not because I don't recall him playing at CB, but I remember seeing Gullit absolutely bossing the games against us home and away in the same season, he was outstanding - although both games actually finished 0-0 and he went off injured after an hour down there! 

 

It’s when Duberry was just starting for them 

 

I think Gullit was a sweeper old fashioned style and just looked like he was playing against 5 year olds 

 

I was only a teenager and thought how good must he have been at his prime 

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1 hour ago, doubleo said:

Michael Owen as a kid - absolute lightening pace ripped us apart

Chris Turner had his best game at S6 when he played for Sunderland  on the early 80s.

Beardsley always impressed, for Toon or Liverpool.

Klinnsman wasn't too bad either.

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49 minutes ago, torres said:

Ruud Gullit - total master class playing centre back!!

 

Ali Bernabia - Man City - looked 5 levels above everyone else 

 

Adam Johnson - early boro years - no one got near him that night 

 

 

 

 

One of the best performances I've ever seen at Hillsborough...on another planet

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52 minutes ago, torres said:

Ruud Gullit - total master class playing centre back!!

 

Ali Bernabia - Man City - looked 5 levels above everyone else 

 

Adam Johnson - early boro years - no one got near him that night 

 

 

 

 

Yeah I remember that Adam Johnson performance well, he was sensational that night, I remember telling my Boro fan brother-in-law all about it.

 

Also my other top three individual performance would be a young Michael Owen's hat trick and superb performance in a 3-3 draw and Jordan Rhodes Huddersfield performance and 4 goals in that 4-4 draw - sensational.

 

Not sure of 1 to 3 order though.

 

UTO.

 

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1 hour ago, paulrs said:

Players that always seemed to put the fear of god into me whenever we came up against them...

Kanchelskis

Ian Wright 

Lee Chapman (serious. That 1-6 game at Hillsborough he was unplayable, absolutely dominated Pearson) 

 

We actually had a virus in the squad in the week before that game. Pearson should never have played and if I remember rightly he was taken off at half time.

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